Scientists name 20 Australian snakes and lizards on path to extinction
Australia has more reptile species than any other country; we are home to about 10% of the world's species.
Australia has more reptile species than any other country; we are home to about 10% of the world's species.
Ecology
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When paleontologists digging in a quarry in southwestern China uncovered the nearly complete skeleton of a giant, dolphin-like marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur, they didn't expect to find another fossil in its stomach. ...
Archaeology
Aug 20, 2020
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A recent study led by the University of Bristol has uncovered fossils of dwarf reptiles that lived in South Wales 205 million years ago and were closely related to North American animals that lived 15 million years earlier.
Archaeology
Aug 12, 2020
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The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collected fossils with ...
Archaeology
Aug 10, 2020
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Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence the genome of the tuatara—a rare reptile whose ancestors once roamed ...
Archaeology
Aug 5, 2020
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Curtin University-led research has found that common reptile species in Perth are accumulating rat poisons at an alarming rate, posing serious implications for the wider urban food web in Australia, and around the world.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2020
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New Curtin University-led research has found that people living in rural and urban areas across Western Australia need to be educated about how to identify the different types of venomous and non-venomous reptiles in WA, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2020
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Some of the most fundamental questions in evolution remain unanswered, such as when and how extremely diverse groups of animals—for example reptiles—first evolved. For seventy-five years, adaptive radiations—the relatively ...
Evolution
Jul 6, 2020
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A team of Griffith University researchers found the strongest predictor of study sites for reptile research in Australia is proximity to universities.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2020
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In an article just published in Conservation Physiology, Macquarie University's Simon Clulow and colleagues reveal a new sperm freezing and revival technique that shows considerable promise—and involves a surprising ingredient.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2020
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